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I.

George Ripley in the Marrow of Philosophy original: "Medulla Philosophiæ", or the Core of Chemical Philosophy, Chapter 3.

Of the Animal Stone.

Translated by Joh. Hiskia Cardilucio, Doctor of Medicine, in The Continued Greatness of Medical-Chemistry original Latin: "Magnalibus Medico-Chimicis Continuatis", page 541 and following.

We have now reached the point / where we wish to reveal in this chapter the highest secret of the Animal Stone / which both the rich and the poor possess / namely, to understand what it is / and how it must be brought into an Elixir Elixir: In alchemy, a substance capable of transforming base metals into gold or functioning as a universal medicine; But since an Elixir must not be made from wine / insofar as it is wine / nor from eggs, hair, or blood / insofar as they are eggs, hair, or blood / but solely from the elements / we must therefore investigate / in what manner we may obtain the elements in the excellence of their simplicity and purity. For the elements are / as the philosopher Bacon Refers to Roger Bacon, a 13th-century philosopher and scientist associated with early alchemy says in his Mirror original: "speculo," referring to his work Speculum Alchemiae (The Mirror of Alchemy) / roots